Trial set to start in 2011 Brockton slaying

A 25-year-old Abington man is charged in a shooting on Harvard Street that took the life of a father of three children.

Benjamin Paulin The Patriot Ledger @BPaulin_Ledger

BROCKTON – Nearly three years after John Anthony Gray was shot and killed on Harvard Street in Brockton, an Abington man will stand trial accused of pulling the trigger.

Delaneau Pierre, 25, of 112 Steward Drive, Abington, is charged with murder, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying ammunition without a license and possessing a firearm without and FID card.

His trial is set to begin this week at Brockton Superior Court. Jury selection began Monday.

On June 2, 2011, Gray was found around 10:30 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the head and groin in the passenger seat of a black Lexus SUV that had crashed into a tree at 33 Harvard St.

Gray, a married father of three, was a lifelong Brockton resident and a graduate of the Brockton school system. He founded the Sertrega Computer Co. in Brockton and he also worked as a day trader. He also was a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve.

Gray was a longtime employee of W.B. Mason Co. in Brockton and had recently completed his studies for nursing before he died.

At the time of the slaying, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said authorities did not believe the shooting was random.

After the daytime shooting, a massive search for Pierre began as he was believed to be armed.

Pierre eluded authorities for nearly three months before being arrested in Taunton, Sept. 1, 2011.

Pierre has previously been arrested on gun charges.

In 2010, he was among three Brockton men arrested in North Attleboro after state police found a stolen .40-caliber handgun in their 2009 Nissan Altima.